What do doctors mean when they talk about teamwork? Possible implications for interprofessional care

Figures & data

Table 1. The outline of the data set and how different types of data were used.

Type of data source	Main data	Additional data
Interviews	20 clinically active doctors	8 management staff
Observations (Shadowing)	-	12 sessions with clinically active doctors
Focused group discussions	-	6 sessions with clinically active doctors

Table 2. A list of the categories that appeared in the analysis in relation to the themes.

Theme 1. What teamwork is: the doctors’ conceptualizations of teamwork	Theme 2. What it takes to achieve good teamwork: the doctors’ opinions
Specific roles	Good communication skills
Common direction of work	Interprofessional team training
A group of people	A high degree of psychological safety
Psychological safety	Explicit roles
A leader	A high degree of team stability
The whole is larger than the sum of the parts	Explicit leadership
	Shared goal
Less prominent categories	Less prominent categories
Identity	a common understanding
a stable group	social communication
service to doctors	a sense of belonging – group cohesion
joint training	enabling interprofessional interaction
common methods to achieve the team’s common goal	personal chemistry
	leadership traits
	proximity
	common debriefing
	common values
	a common definition of teamwork